Newcastle Diet Break Advice Please

[ColinUK]

The key whilst you’re away is compromise.

Take shakes etc with you and limit your choices at breakfast to perhaps one single egg, no juice, no toast, maybe a few mushrooms or just a coffee with cream rather than milk if you’re uncomfortable taking a shake to the table.

When you go out for dinner just pick a simple salad. No dressing. Maybe a drizzle of olive oil.

I found the Newcastle diet worked first time around but I found it almost impossible to keep all the weight off longer term. My blood sugar levels have stayed ok however. I am still about 20kgs down on my start weight which puts me about 15kg above my supposed ideal weight. But 20kg is still 20kg!

When I was on it 100% I did indeed take a shake with me wherever I went to eat out. I mixed it at home, stored it in an insulated travel cup, explained at the restaurant that I was on a medically prescribed diet and never had any issues.

 

[Jenny65]

The key whilst you’re away is compromise.

Take shakes etc with you and limit your choices at breakfast to perhaps one single egg, no juice, no toast, maybe a few mushrooms or just a coffee with cream rather than milk if you’re uncomfortable taking a shake to the table.

When you go out for dinner just pick a simple salad. No dressing. Maybe a drizzle of olive oil.

I found the Newcastle diet worked first time around but I found it almost impossible to keep all the weight off longer term. My blood sugar levels have stayed ok however. I am still about 20kgs down on my start weight which puts me about 15kg above my supposed ideal weight. But 20kg is still 20kg!

When I was on it 100% I did indeed take a shake with me wherever I went to eat out. I mixed it at home, stored it in an insulated travel cup, explained at the restaurant that I was on a medically prescribed diet and never had any issues.

This is brilliant advice 🙂 I agree on taking the shakes with you as well, do you have a portable blender you can take too.

This may not be the case with your diet but on my VLCD if you ate they advised green veg and chicken as a meal but advised to have the shakes for 2 of the meals to ensure adequate nutrition and vitamins,

 

[Jenny65]

I went away for a 3 week holiday when I was on mine, and took my bars and shakes (it was a caravan park in Devon though so not quite the same as we cater for ourselves), I would nibble a bar with a black coffee whilst the others tucked into breakfast, I didnt eat a thing apart from my shakes or bars but if I had done I could have and if I made sensible choices I am sure it wouldnt have caused any issues, but again mine was weight related and not to do with having diabetes, as I didnt have it then, or if I did, I didnt know I did.

 

[ColinUK]

If you have any thermos flasks don’t forget you can mix up your shake and decant it into the flask. Pack the flask with ice and it’ll stay cold for hours.

 

[Jenny65]

If you have any thermos flasks don’t forget you can mix up your shake and decant it into the flask. Pack the flask with ice and it’ll stay cold for hours.

I always assumed that once mixed it has to be consumed quickly, I dont know why I thought that, in my head I thought the vitamins would evaporate if made in advance but probably just in my head.

 

[Feathers]

Sorry for the slow response. I'm giving a Newcastle style diet another crack at the moment, but was aware when I started there would be a few events that would require a break. To handle this, I'm:

- keeping some solid food in my diet every day, so my system isn't totally shocked by a meal.
- strictly defining a break. For example, I'm not going to go to family Christmas and sit there drinking a shake. But the 'break' is just the main meal: no snacks through the day etc. And I've thought ahead to what the meal will involve and how I can keep it reasonable (more carrots, less roast potatoes, for instance)

If you go out for a couple of moderate meals and stick to shakes the rest of the time, I doubt that would throw you off course for long.

 

[ColinUK]

I always assumed that once mixed it has to be consumed quickly, I dont know why I thought that, in my head I thought the vitamins would evaporate if made in advance but probably just in my head.

I think if it’s kept cold it would be fine.